Sea Floor Wreck Pictures

The wreck sleeps in darkness a puzzlement of corroded steel strewn across a thousand acres of the north atlantic seabed.

Sea floor wreck pictures.

An excerpt from the magazine s article reads. When the titanic sank in 1912 the famous ship wasn t exactly sailing in obscurity. It wasn t until sept. As it was not near the main wreckage and as of 2015 had not been found it can be assumed this did not occur on impact with the sea floor.

Fungi feed on it. The whole stern had broken away. Deep sea currents salt corrosion and metal eating bacteria are whittling away the wreckage which lies more than 2 miles under the ocean surface. Ballard kept the wreck s exact location a secret to prevent other divers from taking artefacts from the ship a practice he considered a form of grave robbing.

See more ideas about underwater under the sea diving. Yet it took decades before the wreckage was discovered. Wwii aircraft carrier discovered on ocean floor and the spooky video is amazing deep in the south pacific ocean researchers have located the final resting place of the uss hornet the world war. The bow of the titanic wreck as it looked in 1996.

The 882 5 foot long 268 9 meters craft sank in april 1912 after it struck an iceberg off southern newfoundland and now rests on the ocean floor at a depth of 12 460 feet 3 7 kilometers.